To improve human health and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, barriers that exist between the food and health systems need to be broken down, said Per Pinstrup-Andersen speaking at the U.N. (Nov. 15, 2010)
U.S. Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand and Cornell's Society for the Humanities hosted a daylong roundtable and workshop on campus May 17, on the arts and tourism aiding the upstate New York economy. (May 26, 2011)
For the third year, students studying philanthropy in Cornell's College of Human Ecology allocated $10,000 from Doris Buffett's Sunshine Foundation to local nonprofit organizations. (May 5, 2008)
Forty-seven students minoring in Cornell's new Global Health Program spent the summer in various low-resource countries doing volunteer work and research as part of the requirements for their minor. (Sept. 11, 2009)
Despite the steps he took to try to avert it, the 2008 financial crisis was unstoppable, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in the 29th Hatfield Address, Nov. 11 in Bailey Hall. (Nov. 12, 2010)
Volunteers for Cornell Prison Education Program gain as much as they give in helping to teach Cornell courses at Auburn Correctional Facility. Classes started Sept. 8, and volunteers are welcome any time. (Sept. 9, 2009)
Students have developed ideas for a machine that allows seniors to put on their pants without bending over, a coat that cushions a fall and a jacket that is easy to pull on and off while sitting in a wheelchair. (Jan. 13, 2009)
Cornell University Cooperative Extension-New York City has partnered with the Central Park Conservancy and NYC Parks Department to train staff and volunteers on the basics of horticulture and urban ecology.
Focus more on care and less on disease treatment in the elderly to cut health care costs, said Robert Martensen, National Institutes of Health, in the Sick in America keynote address, April 12. (April 14, 2010)
Three former operations research and information engineering master's students used advanced route optimization software to help a local meals-on-wheels program improve its efficiency. (April 24, 2008)